The Polytechnic Institute of Guarda (IPG) is an Institution of Higher Education oriented to student’s formation, research and investigations activities, services to the community and cultural, scientific and technical exchange.The IPG is a higher education establishment based on quality educative aims, new technologies and modern languages. We have four Superior Schools that offer studies in several areas: Education; Health; Tourism; Technology and Management.In the current academic year, this institution has about 3500 and over 250 teachers.The Polytechnic Institute of Guarda has been developing academic, scientific and cultural cooperation activities with other institutions. This cooperation is not only at a national level, but also at an international level. Agreements were made with some institutions to cooperate with IPG in several activities, like mobility programmes or development of specific projects.IPG is a higher education institution located in the inland of Portugal in a medium size city where students have a strong academic tradition. Due to the increase both of the incoming Erasmus students and teaching or staff mobility these last years, all academic community is already familiarized with foreign people, and are always willing to help them in every occasions.